My go to recipe when I want a little sweet with my afternoon tea. Pinkies out please.

Read on for a few beginner ways to use essential oils in your practice plus I share my top 3 beginner oils to try incorporating.

Savasana you had me at hello. Seriously, can we just skip practice and lay down for the next hour?

..If you had asked me two years ago if I had a consistent yoga practice I would have replied heck yes! Fast forward to eighteen months of motherhood and a brand new business later and you were to ask me that same question... now I just laugh and reply like most of you probably do... who has the time for that? I have actually managed the past few months though to make a regular practice a reality. Keep reading below to find out my top 5 tips to starting or reestablishing a yoga practice.

Yoga Nidra is known as yogi sleep.  This is a short 10 minute recording to help guide you through relaxation or you can use it to help you fall asleep. I recommend getting comfortable before starting the recording.  Make sure you are warm and comfortable.  You might like to lie on your side or on your back with a folded blanket under your knees.  Enjoy!

Be nice.  Don't lie.  Tell the truth.  Most of us were told these words of wisdom when we were learning how to speak.  I think they left out be real.  Be compassionate.  This is the essence of the second Yama (restraint) that is Satya, truthfulness.  Learning how to merge non-harming and truthfulness is daunting.  By taking your yoga practice on and off the mat you can start to live the life you are meant to lead.

Why are you drawn to practice yoga?  The first few times you unroll a yoga mat you might think it is all about learning how to do Downward Facing Dog or perfect your Warrior II.  Maybe you just showed up for the neck rub at the very end.  After ten years of practicing yoga I sometimes feel like I am still reading page one of a thousand page book.  I teach at a teaching studio: we do teaching training's and workshops that go beyond the poses.  Over the next few months, I have decided to begin to scratch the surface of the Yamas and Niyamas in my class starting with the first Yama, Ahimsa.

I cannot believe it has been six months since I last posted anything.  My life feels like it has been moving at warp speed lately since finding out my husband and I are expecting our first child.